Regional winners announced 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and Short Story Prize

Tue, May 14th 2013, 02:06 PM

The Commonwealth
Foundation has announced the regional winners for the 2013 Commonwealth
Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Representing Africa,
Asia, Canada & Europe, Caribbean, and the Pacific regions, these
writers will now compete to become the overall winner, to be announced
at Hay Festival UK on 31 May.

The Commonwealth Book Prize is
awarded for the best first novel, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
for the best piece of unpublished short fiction.

Part of
Commonwealth Writers, the prizes unearth, develop and promote the best
of new writing from across the Commonwealth, developing literary
connections

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